Remote Patrol: UFC Fight Night Marathon Airing Now

I know everyone’s probably recovering from last night’s festivities, but a perfect hangover cure is available: the UFC Fight Night marathon on Spike TV. It kicked off at 9 a.m. ET and will run until 7 p.m.

Until I rewatched it, I forgot how unbelievable that Koscheck-Fickett fight was. Koscheck (from the first season of The Ultimate Fighter) dominated the fight for nearly three rounds, smothering Fickett with simply overpowering wrestling skills. You could see the look of absolute desperation and frustration on Fickett’s face, but with less than a minute remaining, he caught Koscheck with a clean knee and jumped in for the rear-naked choke. The fight was all but over. Everyone had given up on Fickett. And just like that, the bout turned on a dime. It was everything I love about MMA.

Vera’s debut was also interesting. The fight wasn’t anything spectacular (aside from Vera’s knockout via knee), but it was interesting to hear Joe Rogan and Mike Goldberg acting a little amused — and bemused — and skeptical of Vera’s big talk about winning the UFC heavyweight and light heavyweight titles. I just find it funny that Vera was laughed off just a year ago, and to many, he’s now seen as the savior of the UFC’s heavyweight division — before the signing of Mirko Ã¢â?¬Å?Cro CopÃ¢â?¬Â Filipovic, anyway.

So, if you need something to do, flip on Spike TV. They’ve got some great fights coming up.

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http://mmajunkie.comAlso, a few days ago I was playing around in Site Meter, a service we use here on MMAjunkie.com to make sense of our Web traffic. One of the cool features is that we can see everyone who’s currently on the site (which came in handy during our live UFC 66 coverage), and you can pull up an interactive map to see where all those people live (check out the photo to the right).

I jumped over to Site Meter and was floored when I saw that someone from Afghanistan was viewing MMAjunkie.com. I figured it was probably a U.S. soldier.

Sure enough, we got this comment today:

Dude- thanks for the live updates. I am stuck in afghanistan and I wandered here while trying to find out some info. IÃ¢â?¬â?¢ll keep coming back.

we got the replay on armed forces network but i couldnÃ¢â?¬â?¢t wait to know who won! we also get ultimate fighter (6 months late) and other ufc shows. only the ppvÃ¢â?¬â?¢s come a few days after.

Good info, keep up the good work.

/dhc

If that’s not reason enough to do the live updates during the next UFC event, I don’t know what it is.

I’m just glad to hear MMA fans stuck over there have at least a few options to stay up to date on everything.

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